Rap Music Quotes

• I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rap, Book, Writing

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• I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

  Nina Simone

  Rap, Thinking, Hip Hop

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• Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?

  Jay-Z

  Teenager, Rap, Home

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  Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

  Eminem

  Music, Rap, Keys

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  Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

  Kurt Cobain

  Rap, Rocks, Punk

  M.E.A.T Magazine, September 1991.

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• Nothing has more words and performance than rap music.

  Chuck D

  Rap, Performances

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  Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.

  Eminem

  Love, Music, Rap

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• Rap music is a combination of many different arts to make something new. There's always been a stigma that its existence would be short and only appeal to a certain group - but it's the biggest music in the world.

  Chance the Rapper

  Art, Rap, Groups

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• Either I'm listening to rap music, getting hyped up to go out and do something, or I'm listening to church music.

  Hailey Rhode Baldwin

  Rap, Church Music, Listening

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The government recognized immediately that Rap music has enormous revolutionary potential and politicians immediately came together to end it.

  Assata Shakur

  Rap, Government, Together

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• I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies.

  Ice Cube

  Rap, Acceptance, Thinking

  Interview with Linda Saetre, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rap, Ambition, Thug

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• I originally wanted to embrace the imagery and forthrightness of rap music. There are some interesting, dynamic voices in rap. But I find most of it irresponsible in its overt violence and commercialization of anger. As artists, we believe we can will action through language. If that's the case, we have to take responsibility for what we say.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Believe, Rap, Responsibility

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• So for instance in rap music, you very often hear words that would seem very racist, or very misogynous or very homophobic but in some of those instances, the words are being taken back or redefined so that they lose their injurious quality.

  Judith Butler

  Rap, Taken, Quality

  Source: ilga.org

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• The advancement of style is the cornerstone of hip hop. There is no correct or conservative way to make rap music. Rap is and must remain the answer, the alternative, to the conservative approach of making music.

  El-P

  Rap, Hip Hop, Style

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.

  Ice T

  Rap, Stories, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.

  Ice Cube

  Team, Rap, Artist

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• There's nothing wrong with a woman being proud of an element of her life that's talked about in rap music all the time!

  Demi Lovato

  Rap, Elements, Proud

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I have tried... believe me, I have tried to like rap music. It makes me feel so very, very old. I have tried to get home with the downies.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Believe, Rap

  "Dylan Moran: Monster". Video, November 15, 2004.

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• There are poor white people who hear rap music and feel it is about them, because it is. That's why you have an Eminem and a Bubba Sparxxx and rappers like that.

  Russell Simmons

  Rap, White, People

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. September 26, 2002.

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• One of the great things about rap music... it leaves a lot to be desired, as far as I'm concerned, musically, but I do recognize the very important place that it has in music and in creating role models for younger kids to emulate, giving them the dream that they can make it out of whatever situation they're in.

  Graham Nash

  Dream, Rap, Kids

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• As a late teenager, the punk movement pushed me further. In particular, the Clash, which happened to leak through the time of disco, showed me that there was this cross-cultural sound that could cut across genres and audiences. Like punk was to disco, rap music was a rebellion against R&B, which had adopted disco and made it worse.

  Chuck D

  Teenager, Rap, Cutting

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• A lot of people heard about gin and juice for the first time from Snoop Dogg, but it was nothing new in rap music, and it was nothing new in the black community.

  Boots Riley

  Rap, People, Community

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm not going to try to be too young because at the end of the day, I'm not 20 anymore. I don't want to sound corny or look corny doing young things. All the stuff that the kids are doing, that's not my place. I believe that everyone followed me back then, they're still here. That's who I'm trying to talk to and relate to. All the trap music and all of that, it's great but I can't do that. I'm going to stay vintage Ginuwine and stay at the place that got me here. That's what people want.

  Ginuwine

  Believe, Kids, Vintage

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• My mom, she got taken away from me when I was 14 years old. She is incarcerated. My sister was incarcerated. I was homeless. When my mom went away when I was 14... I was forced to live with my aunt. My aunt, she doesn't like rap music. She thinks rap music is the devil's music. Basically she said, "Yo, if you are going to do music you can't do it in my house."

  Sean Kingston

  Mom, Rap, Taken

  "Sean Kingston Talks About His Hot Song". Interview with Alicia Quarles, www.washingtonpost.com. August 1, 2007.

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